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“You can’t bottle wish fulfillment, but Nora Roberts certainly knows how to put it on the page.”—The New York Times
At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth.
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At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth.
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2) Strip
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu "Manco" Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank's night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half-dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lots of cash and is new enough to Los Angeles not to know he was robbing a gangster. Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make...
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Series
Miss Julia series volume 8
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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New York Times best-selling author Ann B. Ross creates endearing characters whose earnest exploits trigger wholesome laughter. This time, America's favorite senior citizen takes on thieves who've stolen her jewelry. Although it's not the first time they've targeted her small North Carolina town, Miss Julia vows to make it the last. Soon she and her posse rush to Palm Beach for some sun, sand, and a bizarre stakeout. But how can two elderly ladies,...
4) Jade Island
Author
Series
Donovan Family volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Wild and restless, Kyle Donovan has freed himself from the constraints of his family's high-powered gem-trading empire to rove the world as a treasure hunter. Now the president of Donovan International has given Kyle an assignment with explosive ramifications. A case he must take. When one of China's legendary cultural treasures is stolen, Lianne Blakely, a mysterious and beautiful jade expert, is accused of the theft. Its Kyle's job to get to the...
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Series
Eagles series volume 7
Publisher
Pinnacle
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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After snuffing out the life of a slick young gunslinger, Falcon MacCallister is doomed to roam the West with a posse tracking him, sworn to revenge.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a handgun, the two couples have little in common--until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case. As the book races toward a high-octane climax, the Abels must fend for their own lives as they circle ever closer to the...
7) Bloodshot
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Series
Cheshire red reports volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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When blind vampire Ian Stott hires thief Raylene Pendle to steal medical documents that may help restore his sight, Raylene learns about Bloodshot, a government-sanctioned project that involved performing cruel experiments on vampires. With the proverbial men in black closing in on her, Raylene follows the Bloodshot document trail from Seattle to Atlanta, where she teams up with a deadly drag queen whose sister was one of the project's victims.
8) Get real
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Series
Dortmunder novels volume 14
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly agreeing to allow his gang to appear in a reality television cop show that promises a lucrative payout and legal protection, luckless thief John Dortmunder and his partner, Kelp, devise a secondary plot to deceive case-cracking television viewers.
11) The double eagle
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Series
Tom Kirk series volume 1
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
They are the most valuable coins on earth . . .
Only a handful still exist, each one worth millions . . .
Now they have vanished from an impenetrable
fortress . . . and the killings have begun.
Somehow, impossibly, someone has invaded Fort Knox and stolen five of the world's last remaining Double Eagles -- the $20 gold coin ordered destroyed by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Now, one has resurfaced during an autopsy in France...
12) Camino Island
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Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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When his business partner and friend, former Maricopa County Sheriff Mike Peralta, becomes the prime suspect in a diamond cache theft, David Mapstone must choose whether to cooperate with the FBI or set out on his own to find Peralta and the truth.
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Series
Edilean series volume 5
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years -- and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Brandon Vale is a career thief, the best there is. Of course, he is serving out a prison term for a robbery gone bad-albeit one that he didn't commit. But then he is broken out of prison against his will by Richard Scanlon, the former FBI agent who framed him in the first place. Scanlon, who still has ties to the U.S. intelligence community, has discovered that a Ukrainian crime organization is auctioning twelve nuclear warheads to the highest bidder,...
17) Fast and loose
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Men of the sisterhood volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"With the women of the Sisterhood away on a covert assignment, their significant others could be expected to kick back and enjoy a little drama-free downtime. But that's not the way Jack, Ted, Harry, Charles, and the rest of their comrades roll. An urgent call has come to the headquarters of their organization, BOLO Consultants. Bert Navarro, head of security for Countess Anna de Silva, suspects that Annie's deluxe casino, Babylon, is being stealthily...
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Riyria chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater return to Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved them from certain death, and discover she has been brutally beaten by a powerful noblemen.
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Riley Wolfe novels volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A fearless thief and master of disguise plots an impossible crime"--
20) Honest illusions
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English
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Lovely magician-jewel thief Roxy partners with the dashing escape artist Luke to relieve the rich of their valuables.
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